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Outsourcing: Brad Heath, CEO of VirTex Assembly Services (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Would you talk a bit about the logistics challenges in shipping and so forth? Of course, there are energy prices and everything, but how has that changed? At some point, it made a lot of sense to manufacture everything in a local destination, and the logistics and shipping charges were not exactly big
Outsourcing: Brad Heath, CEO of VirTex Assembly Services (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Is Mexico the only Latin American country that is coming up in that near shoring trend? Brad Heath: No. It’s the only one that we’re dealing with, but you’ve got stuff happening down in Brazil. You’ve got a number of others. SM: Brazil is not easy to get to at all. BH: It’s
Outsourcing: Brad Heath, CEO of VirTex Assembly Services (Part 2)
SM: What are the repercussions of that? BH: Well, we go ahead and work with our supply chain in the same manner, to minimize our risk and our liability. So, we’re not taking any risks that our customers aren’t taking, but we’re working with our supply chain to minimize that risk for our customers. There are
Outsourcing: Brad Heath, CEO of VirTex Assembly Services (Part 1)
We often talk about how much technology has done to make our lives easier and our workflows faster. When we do, we aren’t usually thinking about the ways that Austin, Texas–based VirTex uses technology to make their customers’ lives easier. From RFID tags to medical training equipment to solar power monitoring, VirTex manufactures all kinds
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2012: EE Technologies, Reno, Nev
Most people don’t care much about where the dash lighting, door lighting and seat belt sensors in their cars are manufactured. They only care that these things work properly. When people cross the street every day, they don’t worry about how the crosswalk signals were made. Again, they only care that these things work properly.
How To Save Manufacturing
By guest author Daniel Burrus Like most industries, the manufacturing sector is transforming rapidly. Because of recent technological advances and globalization, U.S. manufacturing is facing intense international competition, increasing market volatility and complexity, a declining workforce, and a host of other challenges. Yet we know that in order to have a strong economy, we need
Outsourcing: Ravi Pandit, Chairman And Group CEO, KPIT Cummins (Part 1)
About KPIT Cummins A public company listed on the BSE and NSE, KPIT Cummins helps clients to develop domain-based intensive technology solutions for manufacturing corporations with special focus on automotive, transportation & manufacturing, energy & utilities, and defense & government. About Ravi Pandit After studying at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Ravi Pandit began his
Deal Radar 2009: Infinia
Today’s Deal Radar brings cleantech and solar energy back into the limelight with Infinia. The Kennewick, Washington-based company is an energy technology company whose Stirling Solar products convert solar energy into electricity. As a company, Infinia has been around since 1985 and has successfully commercialized the Stirling engine for a number of applications, including combined
